Almost inevitably, discussions on the sexual abuse crisis in the Church will turn to the question of mandatory celibacy in […]

As this week we contemplate the state of vocations to the consecrated life, we find that the recent revelations of

Pope John Paul’s 14th encyclical, Eccelesia de Eucharastia, can be described as the almost 83-year-old pontiff’s love letter to the

Last week we reported the view of US-based Bishop Ibrahim N Ibrahim, an Iraqi national, that while the US would

It is a sad fact that many Catholics could not attend some of the solemn ceremonies of the past Holy

On Holy Thursday we contemplate the institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper. This may be an opportune occasion

The unilateral decision by the United States and Britain to invade Iraq inevitably will have enduring repercussions, whichever way the

Over the past few weeks the bishops of Southern Africa have issued a series of statements addressing a variety of

The Church is in the midst of a reconstruction that centres mainly on the ways its three main constituencies hierarchy,